Stories on Detroit

  1. The schooner Inland Seas takes Detroit and other students on a sail along the Detroit River. Students, along with some help from staff and volunteers, conduct scientific tests, and learn about local history. Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography

    What lies beneath: Detroit River narratives emerge through schooner trips, boat building

  2. This artist’s rendering shows the Detroit Center for Innovation, which will now be built in The District Detroit. Image courtesy of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

    Detroit Center for Innovation to be built in The District Detroit

  3. U-M Block M Logo

    U-M will renovate Rackham building in Detroit

  4. U-M Block M Logo

    Despite cost dip, Michigan auto insurance still high with persistent racial disparities

  5. The state of Michigan overlaying a faucet dripping water. Image credit: Pixabay

    New report: Growing water affordability crisis touches all Michiganders, urban and rural

  6. Digital facsimile of cartographer William Brasier’s “Plan of the Fort at De Troit,” (1761) recently acquired by the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Its key of References identifies the following locations: “A. The King’s Powder Magazine. B. Block-houses. C. The Cavalier. D. The Church. E. Commandants Garden. F. Powder Magazine belonging to the Inhabitants.”

    U-M Clements Library acquires rare hand-drawn map of Detroit from 1761, pursues crowdfunding

  7. U-M Block M Logo

    U-M, city of Flint partner on fiscal reporting pilot program for transparency, better governance

  8. Factory chimney smoke trail at sunset.

    Researchers from U-M, MSU, OU team up to develop wearable pollution-measuring technology

  9. During a two-day visit to the U-M campus, the inaugural class of Marygrove students worked together on problem-solving and engineering projects. Image credit: Heather Nash

    Teaching residents in unique Detroit school program find medical-like mentoring model inspires confidence

  10. Flooding in Detroit. Image courtesy: Michigan State Police Emergency Management & Homeland Security Division

    U-M launches SEAS Sustainability Clinic in Detroit to combat effects of climate change, residential flooding

  11. Pastor Charles Williams II at Historic King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit. Image credit: Eric Bronson.

    Community in crisis: Black churches expand services

  12. House model surrounded by tools.

    Nearly 38,000 households in Detroit estimated to be living in inadequate housing

  13. States with Enhanced Access to Driver's Licenses chart.

    Latino Michiganders: Key findings from U-M Poverty Solutions

  14. Wayne County Building. Image credit: Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography

    Wayne County recovery expected to be strong but uneven, according to U-M economic study

  15. The original glass coasters launched in 2012 feature murals from Detroit's "Wailing Wall" near Eight Mile Road and Wyoming that was built in 1940 as a division between Black and white neighborhoods. The images of brightly colored houses, factories and neighbors added years later gave the wall new meaning. Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography

    Cass coasters: Reclaiming glass and wood and purpose

  16. Rashaun Rucker (pictured) is a Detroit-based multidisciplinary artist who will present new sculptural installations alongside selected works from his praised "American Ornithology" series as part of a new exhibition at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Gallery. Image courtesy: The artist.

    Detroit artist explores connections between Black men, rock pigeons in U-M exhibition

  17. Detroit City Police Department car parked on the city street in downtown Detroit Michigan. Image credit: iStock

    Majority of Detroiters want police reform, many also want increased police presence

  18. Concussion Teach-out logo.

    U-M Concussion Center teams with Detroit schools to develop student-athlete concussion toolkit

  19. Detroit unemployment sits at 25%—lower than pandemic peak, twice pre-pandemic rate

  20. 9/19/18 GM’s Renaissance Center and the skyline from Belle Isle in Detroit, MI. Image credit: Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography.

    Detroit’s jobless rate drops faster than expected, some sectors show strong growth, U-M forecast finds